Friday, November 17, 2006

the coldest blood runs through my veins....

---Earworms of the Week

10. "Love Machine" - Girls Aloud

Stupidly catchy song. I found myself singing in the office about "lovestruck kittie cats" and knew that resistance was futile. I may live to regret this when it inevitably comes up on shuffle at a party or something, but this song now lives on my iPod.

Pop genius.

9. "England's Glory" - Max Wall

This is song that I discovered via Sweeping the Nation's second covermount - a playlist of songs that are all lists (which also includes things like "Reasons to be Cheerful, part III" by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, "The Booklovers" by the Divine Comedy, "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel and the absolutely ace "His Indie World" by Mary Lou Lord.)

It's a list, of course. It's very music hall, and the lyrics are a slightly bonkers name-check of all things English. "Winkles, Woodbines, Walnut Whips, Vera Lynn and Stafford Cripps."

Very funny.

8. "I Love It When You Call" - The FeelingDo I have to go into details? He loves it when you call.

7. "Waiting for the Moving Van" - David Ackles

Another one discovered on Sweeping the Nation. This one was the first entry in the "Songs to Learn and Sing" series, where every day in November, a different writer recommends an essential song that you might have missed. I'd never heard of this guy, but the song is **brilliant**.

A very different kettle of fish to David Ackles. Probot is Dave Grohl's heavy metal side-project. An album of songs done in an old school 80s metal stylee, each track sung by a different guest vocalist. This one features Sepultura's Max Cavalera.

I was taping "Grey's Anatomy" for C. the other night and was pottering about with the telly on in the background. My attention was suddenly grabbed by the soundtrack when I heard a voice that sounded distinctly like Chris Martin's. I checked on the website, and there it was: a track recorded to raise funds for those affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the Gulf Coast. Somehow I managed to miss Stipe's contribution to the song entirely, only picking it up when I watched the video with C. a bit later on.

4 Comments:

#1 - Chris Cornell just can't seem to do wrong. Normally... I don't like it when a lead singer to bands I listen to does something like... the theme to a Bond movie. So far, all three of the bands I know of he's been in, and his solo stuff have been good.

#2 - The Probot disc threw me off way back when I first got it. It grew on me. Grohl really managed to put together a great CD with that one.